Comments for It's Your World Blog http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com It's your world, get to know it. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:23:29 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Tackling Food Insecurity by policyandphilanthropy http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/tackling-food-insecurity/#comment-453 policyandphilanthropy Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:23:29 +0000 http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/?p=960#comment-453 Thank you for the question. You are correct, Lester Brown will be with us Monday, not Tuesday, and we've corrected it in the post thanks to you. Thank you for the question. You are correct, Lester Brown will be with us Monday, not Tuesday, and we’ve corrected it in the post thanks to you.

]]> Comment on Tackling Food Insecurity by Filip Sain http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/tackling-food-insecurity/#comment-450 Filip Sain Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:12:48 +0000 http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/?p=960#comment-450 This blog says Lester Brown is joining the Council next Tuesday. But the calendar has him coming to the Council on Monday 11/9. Am I misunderstanding, or is there a discrepancy? Thanks, Filip This blog says Lester Brown is joining the Council next Tuesday. But the calendar has him coming to the Council on Monday 11/9. Am I misunderstanding, or is there a discrepancy?

Thanks,
Filip

]]> Comment on 5th Annual North American Forum Comes to a Close in Ottawa by » More Than Backpedaling on NAFTA http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/5th-annual-north-american-forum-comes-to-a-close-in-ottawa/#comment-424 » More Than Backpedaling on NAFTA Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:01:18 +0000 http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/?p=775#comment-424 [...] And the intention to carry on with this type of business-led forums, along the lines of the North American Forum that recently concluded in Ottawa, raises many questions: Are we going back to the future? Why are [...] [...] And the intention to carry on with this type of business-led forums, along the lines of the North American Forum that recently concluded in Ottawa, raises many questions: Are we going back to the future? Why are [...]

]]> Comment on Maass Says Transparency Is Key to Reforming Oil Production by October Programs Spotlight Middle East « It's Your World Blog http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/maass-says-transparency-is-key-to-reforming-oil-production/#comment-380 October Programs Spotlight Middle East « It's Your World Blog Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:49:26 +0000 http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/?p=830#comment-380 [...] October has been a busy month at the Council. We’ve had programs about issues ranging from the resource curse of oil to the ways game theory can be applied to national security challenges. There was one region, the [...] [...] October has been a busy month at the Council. We’ve had programs about issues ranging from the resource curse of oil to the ways game theory can be applied to national security challenges. There was one region, the [...]

]]> Comment on Cambodian Democracy and Human Rights Under Siege by Perry http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/cambodian-democracy-and-human-rights-under-siege/#comment-332 Perry Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:04:38 +0000 http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/?p=703#comment-332 make that 15 years after the World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995)... ;-) make that 15 years after the World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995)… ;-)

]]> Comment on Cambodian Democracy and Human Rights Under Siege by Perry http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/cambodian-democracy-and-human-rights-under-siege/#comment-331 Perry Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:13:26 +0000 http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/?p=703#comment-331 Update from Mu Sochua who is currently in the Philippines giving a talk on progress one year after the World Conference on Women in Beijing.... is awaits her day in appeals court next week... read a recent interview with her from Thailand: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48924 -- Perry Update from Mu Sochua who is currently in the Philippines giving a talk on progress one year after the World Conference on Women in Beijing…. is awaits her day in appeals court next week… read a recent interview with her from Thailand:

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48924

— Perry

]]> Comment on Abraham Verghese Reads from New Novel, “Cutting for Stone” by ghettoblackify http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/abraham-verghese-reads-from-new-novel-cutting-for-stone/#comment-269 ghettoblackify Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:18:46 +0000 http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/?p=763#comment-269 nice nice

]]> Comment on Obama, Qaddafi address UN General Assembly by Lolly http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/obama-qaddafi-address-un-general-assembly/#comment-263 Lolly Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:28:14 +0000 http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/?p=711#comment-263 A 90 minute speech? I'd have died from boredom! I hope something good came of the meeting! Do you have a video of this 90 minute speech? A 90 minute speech? I’d have died from boredom! I hope something good came of the meeting! Do you have a video of this 90 minute speech?

]]> Comment on Anecdotes on Life in the Middle East by Perry http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/633/#comment-256 Perry Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:07:42 +0000 http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/?p=633#comment-256 Good article in today's NY Times by Mr. MacFaqrquhar on UN data showing the persistent impact of the global financial crisis on the world's working poor. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/world/18nations.html?scp=3&sq=MacFarquhar&st=cse Good article in today’s NY Times by Mr. MacFaqrquhar on UN data showing the persistent impact of the global financial crisis on the world’s working poor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/world/18nations.html?scp=3&sq=MacFarquhar&st=cse

]]> Comment on A successful “reset” to U.S.-Russian Relations? by John W. Wright http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/a-successful-%e2%80%9creset%e2%80%9d-to-u-s-russian-relations/#comment-227 John W. Wright Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:17:54 +0000 http://itsyourworldblog.wordpress.com/?p=660#comment-227 Listening to Ms. Applebaum on KQED while driving this evening I almost had to pull over in disbelief. How can someone so educated and who is presented as an "expert" get so much so very wrong? Regarding Georgia, she completely ignores the internationally recognized fact that the Georgians started shelling their own positions in a failed false flag operation to draw the Russians in. The Georgians were being advised by U.S. and Israeli military officials at the time, I hasten to add. On Chechnya, she appears to be woefully ignorant of the thoroughly documented evidence which shows that western trained "Islamic terrorists" have been funded and infiltrated into the region to destabilize Russia. This is a program that has its direct roots with the creation of the mujahideen in Afghanistan in the summer of 1979. Perhaps Ms. Applebaum could ask her husband to get a briefing from fellow Pole Zbigniew Brzezinski, who convinced President Carter to begin this 30- year nightmare for everyone who lives in Central Asia, the Balkans, the Caucasus and other targeted areas throughout Africa and Asia. Ms. Applebaum seems totally unaware of the decades long history of western interference in the affairs of Iran, the most recent proof of which is the over $400 million budgeted by the U.S. Congress to destabilize Iran in 2007. I suggest Ms. Applebaum broaden her research and study the work of Michel Chossudovsky, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed and a few other genuinely independent scholars who have studied and written extensively on these subjects. I would also hope that the WAC would invite these gentlemen to speak on these topics. Regards, John W. Wright Listening to Ms. Applebaum on KQED while driving this evening I almost had to pull over in disbelief.

How can someone so educated and who is presented as an “expert” get so much so very wrong?

Regarding Georgia, she completely ignores the internationally recognized fact that the Georgians started shelling their own positions in a failed false flag operation to draw the Russians in. The Georgians were being advised by U.S. and Israeli military officials at the time, I hasten to add.

On Chechnya, she appears to be woefully ignorant of the thoroughly documented evidence which shows that western trained “Islamic terrorists” have been funded and infiltrated into the region to destabilize Russia. This is a program that has its direct roots with the creation of the mujahideen in Afghanistan in the summer of 1979. Perhaps Ms. Applebaum could ask her husband to get a briefing from fellow Pole Zbigniew Brzezinski, who convinced President Carter to begin this 30- year nightmare for everyone who lives in Central Asia, the Balkans, the Caucasus and other targeted areas throughout Africa and Asia.

Ms. Applebaum seems totally unaware of the decades long history of western interference in the affairs of Iran, the most recent proof of which is the over $400 million budgeted by the U.S. Congress to destabilize Iran in 2007.

I suggest Ms. Applebaum broaden her research and study the work of Michel Chossudovsky, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed and a few other genuinely independent scholars who have studied and written extensively on these subjects. I would also hope that the WAC would invite these gentlemen to speak on these topics.

Regards,

John W. Wright

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